[xubuntu-users] Console editor with 'linebreak'

[James Freer]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 8:10 AM, blind Pete <0123peter at gmail.com> wrote:
> James Freer wrote:
>
>> Who know's the editors!
>>
>> Is there an editor apart from Emacs and Vim that does 'softwrap' or
>> 'linebreak' (as vim calls it). I want to use a console editor for
>> editing text words (as opposed to programmer's code). Despite hundreds
>> available it seems that emacs and vim are the only two that offer
>> this.
>>
>> My preference would be for wordstar bindings (yes i'm that old!) Joe
>> does all i want other than coping with long lines. Point is i want to
>> save in long line form but view and edit in wrapped form - just like
>> one does in gedit or leafpad. Using nano/pico ^W^J justifies the
>> entire file and saves it in that form... like Joe - which isn't what i
>> want.
>>
>> I don't really want to have to learn either vim or emacs as they are
>> too complex for my more basic uses but it seems i don't have much
>> choice.
>
> gvim?
>
> I'm not sure if the "g" stands for graphical or gnome, but it has
> the power of vim plus buttons and drop down menus.

It stands for graphical. There's vim-gnome, vim-gtk, vim-nox etc

james